Overall Green Tropical Cyclone alert for CHRISTINE-13 in Australia from 28 Dec 2013 12:00 UTC to 29 Dec 2013 06:00 UTC

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Overall Green alert Tropical Cyclone for CHRISTINE-13

in Australia

29 Dec 2013 06 UTC

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Impact Single TC

Impact based on all weather systems in the area

Impact

Tropical Cyclone CHRISTINE-13 can have a low humanitarian impact based on the maximum sustained wind speed,exposed population and vulnerability.

Meteorological source	GDACS
Exposed countries	Australia
Exposed population	No people in Category 1 or higher
Maximum wind speed	148 km/h
Maximum storm surge	1.1 m (30 Dec 11:00 UTC)
Vulnerability	Low (Australia)

GDACS Score

GDACS alert score for Tropical Cyclones is 0.5 (GREEN Alert), 1.5 (ORANGE Alert), 2.5 (RED Alert)
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	Wind	Storm surge	Rainfall	GDACS score
Current	138 km/h	1.1 m	n.a.	0.5
Overall	148 km/h	1.1 m	n.a.	0.5
Maximum winds, storm surge, rainfall (Current: over the next 72 h, Overall: entire TC track) based on GDACS impact

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Wind

138 km/h Current Max.

Up to 1100 people in Category 1 strength or higher (see SSHS)

Impact Timeline

N°	Date (UTC)	Max Winds (km/h)	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Population in Cat 1. or higher	Countries
1	28 Dec 2013 06:00	130	No people	No people	Australia
2	28 Dec 2013 12:00	121	No people	No people	Australia
3	28 Dec 2013 18:00	130	No people	Few people	Australia
4	29 Dec 2013 00:00	148	No people	5 thousand	Australia
5	29 Dec 2013 06:00	138	No people	1 thousand	Australia

Bulletin Timeline

N°	Date (UTC)	Category (SSHS)	Max winds (km/h)	Population in Cat.1 or higher	Population in Tropical Storm or higher	Location (lat, lon)	Countries
1	12/28/2013 6:00:00 AM	Tropical storm	64	no people	no people	-15.6, 120.7
2	12/28/2013 12:00:00 PM	Tropical storm	64	no people	no people	-16.2, 120.6
3	12/28/2013 6:00:00 PM	Tropical storm	84	no people	<1000 people	-16.3, 120.4	Australia
4	12/29/2013	Tropical storm	101	no people	<1000 people	-16.6, 120.2	Australia
5	12/29/2013 6:00:00 AM	Tropical storm	101	no people	11000 people	-17.1, 119.7	Australia
5	12/29/2013 6:00:00 PM	Category 1	121	no people	33000 people	-18.1, 119	Australia
5	12/30/2013 6:00:00 AM	Category 1	138	<1000 people	37000 people	-19.4, 118.3	Australia
5	12/30/2013 6:00:00 PM	Category 1	138	<1000 people	38000 people	-21.1, 118	Australia
5	12/31/2013 6:00:00 AM	Tropical storm	101	no people	no people	-23.2, 119.2	Australia

Tropical disturbance/Weak low pressure area/Remnant low (Vmax < 51 km/h), see WMO

Actual track of the current bulletin

The alert for forecast greater than 3 days is limited to Orange level.

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Exposed population - AoIs

Exposed population in the potential affected countries, provinces and populated places

Provinces

Country	Region Province
Australia	Western Australia

Populated places

Name	Region Province	Country	City class	Population
Wittenoom Gorge	Western Australia	Australia	City	-

Critical infrastructure

Airports, ports, nuclear plants and hydrodams at risk, if affected, are listed below.

Airports

Name	IATA Code	Elevation (m)	Usage	Runway type	IFR	Runway Length (ft)
Wittenoom Gorge	WIT	unknown

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Rainfall

Rainfall accumulation of the past 24h, as detected by the Global Precipitation Measurement mission of NASA. For more information, see https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GPM/main/index.html.

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StormSurge

1.1 m

The maximum Storm surge height is 1.1m in Condon, Australia. This height is estimated for 30 Dec 2013 11:00 UTC .

The JRC has developed an experimental global storm surge model. The calculations are published about 20 minutes after a new advisory is detected by GDACS. The calculations identify the populated places affected by storm surge up to three days in advance, using the forecasted track. When forecasts change, the associated storm surge changes too and alert levels may go up or down. All links, data, statistics and maps refer to the latest available calculation. If the calculation for the last advisory is not completed, the latest available calculation is shown.

Locations affected by Storm surge (13 locations). Calculation based on advisory number 5 of 29 Dec 2013 06:00:00 UTC. (Simulation using 0.5 minute resolution)

Alert	Date (UTC)	Name	Country	Storm surge height (m)
	30 Dec 2013 11:00	Condon	Australia	1.1
	30 Dec 2013 15:00	Thangoo	Australia	0.5
	29 Dec 2013 06:00	Derby	Australia	0.4
	30 Dec 2013 14:00	Broome	Australia	0.4
	29 Dec 2013 03:00	Pender	Australia	0.3
	30 Dec 2013 02:00	Kennedys Cottage	Australia	0.3
	30 Dec 2013 02:00	Waterbank	Australia	0.3
	30 Dec 2013 19:00	East Lewis I	Australia	0.2
	29 Dec 2013 04:00	Kollan I	Australia	0.2
	30 Dec 2013 06:00	Wickham	Australia	0.2
	30 Dec 2013 06:00	Point Samson	Australia	0.2
	30 Dec 2013 06:00	Cossack	Australia	0.2
	30 Dec 2013 08:00	Ah Chong I	Australia	0.1

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